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Advanced stats preview: One more tune-up game for Ohio State

This is Ohio State’s last chance to get the early-season issues fixed, or at least on the right track, before heading to what is likely to be the toughest game of the season against Penn State (the Buckeyes’ win probability is just 61% by S&P+ — their next-lowest is Michigan at 77%).

Tulane is an interesting final tune-up game, mostly because of their unique offense. It is triple-option-ish, but with some notable differences. Here’s our Wake Forest blog to explain:

The first point to make is that this is a different style of option attack that we have seen against Georgia Tech and Army in the past couple of seasons.